Population:
200,022

Montgomery profile

Living in Montgomery

Montgomery is a relatively large city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 200,022 people and 58 constituent neighborhoods, Montgomery is the second largest community in Alabama.

Montgomery is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery who work in office and administrative support (13.98%), sales jobs (10.88%), and management occupations (9.37%).

Also of interest is that Montgomery has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Montgomery use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Montgomery‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

The overall education level of Montgomery citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.19% of adults in Montgomery have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Montgomery in 2010 was $25,488, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,952 for a family of four. However, Montgomery contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Montgomery is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Montgomery home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery include German, Irish, Scottish, and African.

The most common language spoken in Montgomery is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.